5.0450 Rs: Quotes: Long Letter; Hare; Errors (3/57)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 15 Nov 1991 15:26:59 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0450. Friday, 15 Nov 1991.
(1) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 10:03:12 EST (19 lines)
From: "Ian M. Richmond" <42100_1156@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: Long letter citation
(2) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 11:59:11 EST (30 lines)
From: Gregory Bloomquist <GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: Where the Hare layed
(3) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 08:22:11 EST (8 lines)
From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC>
Subject: quotes on errors
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 10:03:12 EST
From: "Ian M. Richmond" <42100_1156@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: Long letter citation
I can't recall who first inquired about the source of the quotation
writing a long letter because the author didn't have time to make
it shorter. Whoever it was suggested it might be attributed to
Pascal. A later reply said it was from Pascal's famous "Pensees".
In fact, the quotation is from Pascal's "Lettres Provinciales",
Letter XVI and reads as follows:
"Mes Reverends Peres, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutume de se suivre
de si pres, ni d'etre si etendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a ete
cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que
parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
Ian M. Richmond, Department of French, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. 519-661-2163 Ext 5703
also IMR@UWOVAX.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 11:59:11 EST
From: Gregory Bloomquist <GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: Where the Hare layed
I'm not sure that the following is of any help to Germaine Warkentin in
her attempt to track down the phrase "where the Hare layed", but for
whatever it's worthhere you have one perspective. My colleague, David
Mawer, says that he is ashamed to admit that he knows the expression as
a hunting expression, since, as he told me, he was "bloodied as a child
in a hare hunt". David told me, ignorant new worlder that I am, that
unlike rabbits who dig burrows, the hare cannot: it can only lie on top
of the ground, hidden by the grass. So, the expression used by hunters
when hunting hare is the one Germanine has found in Radisson's text; the
expression used for hunting rabbits is "go to earth" (as in, the rabbit
has gone to earth and now we shall have to wait till he comes out).
This is probably not scholarly enough but I was tickled to see my
colleague recall his misspent youth!
Greetings.
L. Gregory Bloomquist
Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 08:22:11 EST
From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC>
Subject: quotes on errors
May the Baker Street Irregulars forgive me, for this is from memory and
therefore doubtless erroneous, but Holmes somewhere says to Watson, "When
I said that you aided me, Watson, I meant that by your errors I was now and
again directed toward the truth." Clarence Brown / Comp Lit / Princeton